Thomas W. Cobb

Thomas Willis Cobb (1784-1 February 1830) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district (DR) from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1821 (succeeding Wilson Lumpkin and preceding Alfred Cuthbert) and from 4 March 1823 to 6 December 1824 (preceding Richard Henry Wilde), as well as a US Senator from 6 December 1824 to 7 November 1828 (succeeding Nicholas Ware and preceding Oliver H. Prince).

Biography
Thomas Willis Cobb was born in Columbia County, Georgia in 1784, and he became a lawyer in Lexington. Cobb served in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821 and from 1823 to 1824, when he was elected to fill the vacant US Senate seat held by the late Nicholas Ware. He served until his resignation in 1828, and he died in 1830. He was the cousin of Confederate generals Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and Howell Cobb.